WHAT I LIKED: There's no denying that there are some funny things in 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging,' as writer/director Gurinda Chadha takes the source material and crafts some amusing commentary on white-girl teenage angst and first-world p... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: At its core, Andrew Haigh's 'Lean on Pete,' is the affecting and touching character study of a young man without any much-needed guidance or parental figures who ends up on the run with a horse, but the reason it's so amazing - and w... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: There's simply no denying that James DeMonaco's 'The Purge,' has a pretty genius concept at its centre, as the idea of one night of murder and the purging of whoever society pleases is both an interesting thematic idea as well as a r... Read the full review »

There are a lot of big ingredients flying around in Richard Eyre's The Children Act (2018), but that should hardly come as a surprise for fans of Ian McEwan who not only wrote the novel upon which this movie is based, but also adapted it here for... Read the full review »

There are a lot of big ingredients flying around in Richard Eyre's Ian McEwan adaptation 'The Children Act,' but does this well-acted Emma Thompson drama work well as one cohesive whole? Read the full blog post »

WHAT I LIKED: It's funny how boxing has spawned so many film portrayals, but anyone looking for a core reason why this sport in particular is so popular in cinema needn't look any further than 'Rocky,' as it practically defines its sub-genre. Yes... Read the full review »

The concept of 'theme' in movies is one that's often hard to put a finger on. It's generally a central idea behind a story or something that's touched upon throughout a film, but it crucially has the ability to ground a narrative in something mean... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: On the face of it one might think that 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' is an odd movie for Martin Scorsese to have directed, but he's always been a filmmaker interested in addictive and troubled lifestyles acting against individuals' cons... Read the full review »